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Letters: NEA Forgetting About Students

Unions were once very necessary. Union membership is rapidly decreasing for several reasons, but mainly because of corruption in leadership. Members, in general, do not condone violence and unfair practices. How fair is it for a person to pay dues that are, in turn, given to a corrupt political party that you don’t support and whose politics are anti-Biblical?

I was once a member of perhaps the largest union in our country, the National Education Association. It has become too large and too powerful. The NEA has largely become an advocate for its members and is doing, in my opinion, very little for the education of children and youth. Its leadership is far left, or about even with the president, and we can all see the kinds of people he has chosen. I would like to see the teachers abandon the NEA and form an association of educators whose only focus is on the education and welfare of their students.

Does the Bible have anything to say about unions? Matthew 20:13-15 tells about employer/employee relations. Matthew 21 and Mark 12 tell how laborers united, then threatened to take over the company that pays their wages. Those thugs destroyed their own livelihood. Could unions be the greatest reason that the economy of the U.S. has gone south?

The Bible, my authority for all of life, has many other instances of people uniting for corrupt reasons and practices. Matthew 26 is the most notable, using union-style tactics by a mob in the arrest, false accusation and murder of Jesus Christ.

I received a letter from an Arkansas Education Association aspirant for the presidency here in Arkansas. This person listed five goals she would pursue, if elected. None of them mentioned the education nor welfare of the students.